Malaysian worker dies after being attacked by white tigers at zoo
By Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 13 November 2008 1515 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/389571/1/.html


SINGAPORE: A Malaysian contract worker died after being attacked by three white tigers at the Singapore Zoo on Thursday.

The worker has been identified as Nordin Bin Montong. Zoo officials said the 32-year-old had jumped into a moat at the white tiger enclave and was subsequently mauled to death by the white tigers.

Police said they received a report at 12.30pm about a man sustaining neck injuries at the zoo. Paramedics were called to the scene and Nordin was pronounced dead at 12.45pm.

Biswajit Guha, assistant director, Singapore Zoo, said: "Prior to the incident, the zookeepers had actually noticed that the contract worker was behaving erratically.

"He was throwing things around and as he was walking out of the zoo, he passed comments like 'Goodbye, you won't see me again'. He later cycled back and 5 minutes later, the alarm went off."

Nordin had jumped off the ledge into the water and once he was inside the enclave, the three white tigers mauled him for five to ten minutes, while 20 zookeepers tried desperately to save him by distracting the animals.

They were too late, as were the two licensed rifle shooters who were called to the scene.

As a precautionary measure, the white tiger exhibit has been temporarily closed and the 9-year-old tigers, which came from Indonesia, are in confinement for now.

Zoo officials said once the police finish their investigations, they would examine if there is a need to further enhance safety measures.

Singapore Zoo added that it is natural for tigers to pounce on any prey and there is no reason to sedate the animals.

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My goodness. I don't know to feel sad for the man or for the tigers! =X erm, although it's still under investigation, all i can say is, i definitely would have chose a less disfiguring way to die.

=X

No, i seriously don't fancy being mauled to death.

Even if i want an indirect suicide, i would have chose a less painful way. Ah, well. Maybe research is right; men prefer violent ways of suicide. And Singapore has no guns, SO.

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Ah, ok. Please don't sue me. What i've commented about suicide is purely my own speculations, trying very hard to apply what i've learnt so hard but didn't come out for exams... nothing to do with the news above! -_-'''

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Happy 11 months, dear!! =) After 6 days of your dip dip!-ly missed absence, i finally got to see you today in my unglam half dead look! Hahaha. Missed you so much.. =) =)

Happy (hopefully counted correctly) 76 months to jul and cy! and happy be-early erm, is it 4 months(?) to stephie and feng! =) Hahaa paiseh i'm getting a little old and confused~

Yay! 13 is always a very happy day every month! ^^

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I meant, if you don't count Reb paper =X

Hah. 2 papers down! The toughest times are over! Hopefully~ Hahaa. At least i don't have to sleep from 11.30pm-4am anymore.

French was like the most fun exam i've ever sat for in the last 2.5yrs~ ahahaa. Ok, maybe only i thought it was fun =X oh well, i don't know anybody else taking so can't really compare. Was a little irritated though. Somebody asked M a question, and i happened to be sitting in front, so M grabbed my paper without asking (while i was waiting for my blanco to dry), and waved for J(i think) to come, and pointed out to him blahblahblah. And i thought i would get my paper back after that. But no, M walked up to the mic with my paper to make an announcement! -_-''' Yes, all the time, everyone around me was madly scribbling their essays, and i had nothing to write on! *sulks* lucky it wasn't those no-time-to-do paper. or else i would be damn pissed! bwah!

And I walked out of Adolescent paper relatively calm today, although i knew i screwed it up big time. Maybe it was the fatigue eating me up; I was just too tired to bother anymore once it's over. And maybe it was because I went in totally 100% prepared to face such a paper, so I wasn't that distraught even when I couldn't do the questions. In other words, it was simply learned helplessness.

You've got to pardon me, i'm blindly throwing out terms that I didn't get to put to use during exams after chewing on them for days. ESPECIALLY ANOREXIA NERVOSA.

Damn it! She must have known we would speculate jul to be anorexic! So she don't want to set anorexia questions~ It's called the die-die-also-want-us-to-die phenomenon! (Ting, 2008)

Even the mark allocations was totally weird! *grumpy ting* Ok, i conclude i must have been really tired after my paper. Coz now i've rewarded myself with can1 porridge, a strawberry milkshake, and napped, i start getting irritated about it. Hahahaha~ Ting's Delay of Agitation~ -_-'''

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Yes, i've had enough of nonsense spewing. I ought to start preparing for the other killer papers ahead~ See? I didn't use Doomsday anymore. Xianxian the pirate, stole my copyright phrase. Tsk tsk!

Good luck, people! Study hard!! =]

*looks at time* gosh. 45min ago i was looking up some cheem stats term. how on earth did intermixed treatment design ended me here!? O_O